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A Sea Shanty (also known as a chantey) Is a traditional song sung by sailors, either in maritime trade or the navy. There are many different kinds of shanties. Some were used as work songs sung while performing particular tasks on board ship, some were ballads sung purely for entertainment as a pastime, and others were merely drinking songs. They usually have central themes of shipboard life, sweethearts/mistresses/evil women, and/or going home. They are still sung today aboard traditional sailing vessels and at designated "chantey sings" across the country.

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Shanties are work songs that were sung on board ships. "Drunken Sailor" is a classic example. Singing together helped sailors pull on a line (rope) in together and helped with tedious tasks (raising the anchor, working the pumps).

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shanty is a little shack
A shanty town is a collection of shacks, made of whatever the people can get hold of.
A shanty is a portable shed or a shack. It's a dwelling.

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"Shanty town" is a part of large cities where poor people live in home-built shacks, often with no electricity or water. - A part of many 3 world cities in Africa and south America.

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it is a man who is loud and smelly

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